CFP: Asian American Lit. and Postcolonial Theory (9/1/05; collection)

full name / name of organization:

Katherine Sugg

contact email:

ksugg@optonline.net

We are seeking essays for an edited collection on "Asian AmericanLiterature and Postcolonial Theory," which should be both an explorationand a mapping of the debates around these two terms and their corollaries.Such corollary debates have erupted over the use of terms such as diaspora,cultural memory, racial melancholy and trauma, nationalism, ethnicity, andhybridity in Asian American cultural critique. Essays that consider thesegenealogies and/or question the usefulness of theories derived fromcolonial and postcolonial discourse are especially welcome. Also ofinterest would be specific author, period, regional, national, and textualstudies that appropriate the tools of postcolonial theory or consider theinadequacy of such tools for Asian American contexts. We are concerned withthe interdisciplinary dimensions of these debates in Asian Americanliterature for ethnic studies, history, other cultural production, andpolitical activism and theory. As the revision and updating of anestablished project, the collection has solid publication potential andinterest.